I just finished driving across country from the East Coast to the West Coast, which I have done several times before. Every time I do this, I notice something different. This time, what struck me was the growth of alternative energy sources around the country. We’re looking for alternative energy and it seemed to me, the answer is blowing in the wind.

I am accustomed to seeing the huge turbines in the desert surrounding Palm Springs. They sometimes are turning but many of them are stilled and I’ve always wondered whether they are still due to lack of wind or lack of interest in making them provide clean energy to operate our cities?

I took a different route this time and saw wind farms where I had never seen them before including the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center. This energy farm in Texas is the world’s largest energy producing wind farm with 735.5 megawatt capacity. Texas is the state with the most wind farms in operation as well as the most farms under construction.

I also saw wind farms in operation in Iowa when I was there last summer. Minnesota and Oregon both also have large numbers of farms.

But the sight of these gentle-looking giants slowly turning, looking as though they will spring loose and roll away with the wind driving them always makes me wonder why we don’t have more of these?

The government has been pouring resources into renewable energy sources. There is support for these programs and interest in them. Americans have said in surveys that they will pay more for green products. This is one that ought to be supported.

Taking a coast-to-coast road trip is actually a fairly resource-intensive undertaking. But my plans necessitated it, and I hoped some good would come it. So thanks for letting me share these hopeful views of our country. We can Greenify together, and we need to find answers. This past week, I saw that process getting underway.

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